Atam Pargas USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882174961
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Vacaville, CA, USA
Phone
8455173699
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$191,857
Expenses
$6,832
Assets
$550,892
Liabilities
$1,255

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUKHWINDER KAUR (President)

People named in this filing

  • SUKHWINDER KAUR (President)
  • NIRVAIR SINGH BHINDER (Secretary)
  • SUKHWINDER KAUR KAHLON (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Atam pargas USA will take initiatives to educate youth to deveolop their personality as "truthful human beings" in the service of humanity and support, however possible, activities consistent with this corporation's exempt purpose. Atam pargas USA seeks to support the projects undertaken by atam pargas social welfare council in india, including:-establishment of academic institutions, sports academies and human resources development centers.-teaching ethics and developing "truthful human beings" for the welfare of mankind.-financial, moral, educational, and physical support to ensure self-sustenance of underprivileged familes.-pollution control and natural resource conservation projects.-farmer welfare projects to reduce consumption of chemicals in agriculture, adopt resource conservation technologies, mitigate global warming, improve food quality and increase farm income.-literature and history archiving projects.-providing physical education, health and medical services.-any other hu

What it reported doing in 2025

Online moral education and punjabi teaching and personality development classes were conducted 5 days a week (monday to friday) throughout the year in collaboration with atam pargas welfare development council of india. Received lots of interest from families and students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

REVIEW - Revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.4%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 96.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 80.63; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -94.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -38.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 58.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.4% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.